Part 34

CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads, bent inwards at the end. Tips are red, beardless, and without the blossom.

POINTAL. Seed-vessel nearly round, and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped, and without the blossom. Summit shield-shaped.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from April, till July.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement, and Blossom.

2. The Blossom.

3. The Empalement magnified.

4. The Chives, and Pointal.

5. The Chives detached from the Pointal; one tip magnified.

6. The Seed-vessel, Shaft, and its Summit, magnified.

ERICA glauca.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris cristatis, inclusis; floribus umbellatis, terminalibus, livide-purpureis; pedunculis longissimis; bracteis ovatis, maximis; folia terna, linearia, carnosa, glauca.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS erectus, fragilis, sesquipedalis; rami erecti, subsimplices, longi.

FOLIA terna, linearia, acuta, patentia, sulcata, glabra, carnosa, glauca; petiolis adpressis.

FLORES terminales, umbellati, nutantes; pedunculi longissimi, colorati, bracteis ternis, coloratis, ovatis, concavis instructi.

CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis ovatis, coloratis, reflexis.

COROLLA subconica, atro-purpurea, ore arctata; laciniis reflexis, acuminatis.

STAMINA. Filamenta octo, capillaria, receptaculo inserta. Antheræ cristatæ, ad basin gibbæ, inclusæ.

PISTILLUM. Germen subglobosum, sulcatum. Stylus inclusus, cylindricus. Stigma peltatum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mensi Maii, in Julium.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx, et Corolla.

2. Calyx, lente auctus.

3. Stamina, et Pistillum.